• J. Pharm. Pharmacol. · Oct 2007

    Comparative Study

    Antispasmodic activity of licochalcone A, a species-specific ingredient of Glycyrrhiza inflata roots.

    • Hidemasa Nagai, Ju-Xiu He, Tadato Tani, and Teruaki Akao.
    • Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
    • J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 2007 Oct 1; 59 (10): 1421-6.

    AbstractLicochalcone A, a species-specific and characteristic retrochalcone ingredient of Glycyrrhiza inflata root, has been shown to possess multiple bioactive properties. However, its muscle relaxant activity has not been reported previously. Licochalcone A showed a concentration-dependent relaxant effect on the contraction induced by carbachol (50% effective concentration (EC50) = 5.64 +/- 1.61 microM), KCl (EC50 5.12 +/- 1.68 microM), BaCl2 (EC50 1.97 +/- 0.48 microM) and A23187 (EC50 2.63 +/- 2.05 microM). Pretreatment with licochalcone A enhanced the relaxant effect of forskolin, an adenylyl cyclase activator, on the contraction in a similar manner to 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX), a phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor. Furthermore, the IC50 (22.1 +/- 10.9 microM) of licochalcone A against cAMP PDE was similar to that of IBMX (26.2 +/- 7.4 microM). These results indicated that licochalcone A may have been responsible for the relaxant activity of G. inflata root and acted through the inhibition of cAMP PDE.

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